Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

The Best Is Always Yet To Come

For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Nothing is far from God.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.